Tuesday | June 9 | 6:30 PM | Free

We invite you to hear from author Lane Igoudin, PhD, on his and his family's experience as an interfaith LGBTQ family. Lane Igoudin, Ph.D is a Los Angeles-based author, speaker, and proud Dad of two amazing kids, who writes about adoptive parenting, fatherhood, LGBTQ families, as well as faith and Jewish spiritual growth. Professor Igoudin is a graduate of CSU Long Beach and Stanford University.

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A Family, Maybe (2024)

In his candid and emotional memoir, Lane Igoudin shows the human side of public adoption as he and his partner Jonathan seek to adopt their foster daughters from the Los Angeles County child welfare system.

Desperately wanting to be fathers, they enter into a complicated legal process that soon becomes a tangle of drama-filled birth parent visits and children’s court hearings. Lane and Jon spend years not knowing if the county will reunite the sisters with their birth mother, a teenager in the state’s custody herself, or allow to adopt them.

Heartwarming moments with the kids and relatable first-time-parent woes become bittersweet as Lane realizes how much he and Jon have built—and how much they could lose.

(Ooligan Press, PSU)